1. Partner in the Pivot?

    Editor's Note: Below is the full text of the Naval Diplomat’s essay for the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars [...]

  2. America’s Pivot, Taiwan and Anti-Access

    Strong allies help weak allies who help themselves. That's the message the Naval Diplomat will be conveying next Tuesday at [...]

  3. Move, Countermove in the Anti-Access Game

    Wired’s Spencer Ackerman reports on the Anti-Submarine Warfare Continuous Trail Unmanned Vehicle (ACTUV), a futuristic unmanned surface ship equipped to [...]

  4. Vietnam’s Undersea Anti-Access Fleet

    If nothing else, this series on access denial shows that anti-access strategy comes in many varieties. Vietnam too is pursuing [...]

  5. Anti-Access on the Korean Peninsula

    You have to sympathize—almost—with North Korea. Like leaders in China, Iran, and other coastal states, the Kim Jong-un regime hopes [...]

  6. The Real Iran Threat

    As the Naval Diplomat and his trusty editor Harry Kazianis batten down the hatches for Hurricane Sandy, our minds turn [...]

  7. Flashy Name, Old Idea: Anti-Access Strategy

    As the Bard noted, a rose by any other name smells as sweet. So it is with “anti-access.” While the [...]

  8. The Nightmare Scenario: A U.S.-China War: Part IV

    Read Part I, Part II, Part III and Part V Debates over China’s anti-access strategy typically concentrate on weapons technology [...]

  9. The Nightmare Scenario: A U.S.-China War: Part III

    Read Part I, Part II, Part IV and Part V Students of strategy tend to assume the classic works were [...]

  10. The Nightmare Scenario: A U.S.-China War: Part II

    Read Part I, Part III, Part IV and Part V One heartening thing about the U.S. military’s AirSea Battle Doctrine [...]